Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-01
"P|TY' 'TIS,' IT'S TRUE" 1"
Three Iowa Maidens Looking in
Vain for Their Heartless
Lovers.
Strangers in a Strange Land
With no One to
Love.
History of the Game that was
Played Upon Them so
Successfully.
MAIDENs fORLORN


Deiuded and Deceived by Imaginary Men,
Who lnveigie Them from Iowa to Miles
City and Then Fail TO show Up.
Upon the train from the west there
arrived three females, young, good
looking and confiding to fault. Their
luggage included ali the traps and
travelling wardrobe usually affected by
well-to-do people. With coin of the
realm they were reasonably well pro.
vided, but, oh! with what anxiety
their features were impressed as they
stood upon the platform under the
glare Of the electric light seeking for q
familiar face. Despairing OF their
hopes being realized they repaired TO
the hotel and there were interviewed.
The spokeswo of the party, a
damsel Of possibly 26 summers, but
who is In the full bloom Of woman
hood and remarkably bright and
vivacious, unfolded the following tale:
1--WE come from q small town near
Bedford, Taylor county, Iowa, and are
all Of us distantly related. Our names
we do not care to have published but
we are all of eminently respectable
psrentsge. We were led TO CORE.
spond with three men-one for each
of us-by answering q personal In a
metropolitan paper. The initial step
was made by me and the fickle man
las he now appears) with whom l
opened the correspondence, claimed to
be ranch man living near Miles City.
He wrote well; We exchanged photos
and / finally agreed to come to Miles
City, where he was to meet me and
we should there be married. Be.
fore, however, my course Of true love
had progressed thus far, my ranch
man asked by letter that two girls OF
my acquaintance might open CORE.
spondence with matrimonial view
with two friends OF his and that IL
how we all happen to be here" The
fickle swains it seems had written these
young ladies to come cut together
and they would surely meet them,
and trusting blindly the girls obeyed
The names Of the male parties to the
broken contract were given te the re-
porter, but by requst are withheld, as
the ladies hone that some untoward
accident may have caused them to
miss their tryst. But the names given
were unknown to the reporter and
with many misgivings be hinted thai
they had probably been beartlessly de
ceived. A food Of weeping-in which
the scribe almost joined-was the only
reply for q time, and then the girl
heorically resolved to meet the wors
with unflinching and unswervinl
bravery.
Should their recreaut swains no
show up within day or two they will
endesvor to secure employment in tn,
city and we are confident that tn,
good people Of our city will help the n
In their distress. The girls will writ,
to their old rome explaining thei
situation and resolve and hope /,
catch on to some good man who will
prove more substantial than the like
ness with which they had been de
luded.
While the situation Is extremity EN-
barassiDg to them IL presented itsel
In q ludicrous light during the reher
sal Of their ex perience, and the nara
tor was frequently interrupted b,
peals of laughter, which goes TO show
that their hearts are not greatly affec
ted. Miss Belle. the youngest ant
prettiest of the coterie, is the one o
lightest heart, and told the blushiDI
hotel clerk that she had money enough
TO live at ease until he could save enough
to pop the question to her. As th'
clerk limits himself TO q sinking funt
OF six bits a month he felt extremel.
non.plussed.
These young ladies have withou
doubt been deluded. and the unmanly
frauds who inveigled them TO come 4
their protecting arms and happy fire
sides and reign supreme queen OF thei
household godH, are the only losers b!
their falsity, any one Of the girls be
ing In infinitely above them, socially a
will a. mentally. Can one conceive o
trick more unseemly.
The reporter promised to keep secre
for reasonable time the names Of tn
decei vers and those of the girls, bu